Abc Messages Featuring Pastor Ben Poole

Speak Your Servant Is Listening. Last week Review. 1. When God Speaks he chooses correctly. 2. When God speaks it isn’t always good news. 3. When God Speaks it doesn’t always make sense. 4. When God speaks it’s to bring us into His plan. Samuel To understand Samuel we have to know the family he was born into. 1. He had a father who had two wife’s. 2. His mother couldn’t have kids while the other wife couldn’t stop having kids. 3. The other mother was making life unbearable. She goes and prays in the temple. (Eli) thinks she’s drunk and tries to kick her out. She says that she’s praying to God. Eli is the father of two lousy priests. Hopnei and Phineas. Here’s what these two bad apples were doing. 1. They were stealing from the food offerings. 2. They were hanging around outside the temple and harassing the temple maids and seducing them and committing adultery. 3. They didn’t listen to their father when he told them to knock it off and stop sinning. Meanwhile Sam is growing up